Maurice E Maher
Well-Known Member
Now that we know a little bit more about the situation (e.g. that there would have been a different drummer, and when it might have happened) it'd be interesting to know whether people would have been in favour or against the idea...
I'm adding this recent quote from Marr - looks like it would probably have meant a new Smiths album so not just a nostalgia thing:
"I’d thought anyway that if the Smiths were ever going to reform a big part of it would have been to make a new record, because on the one occasion – that I talk about in the book – that it may have nearly happened, I was one hundred per cent as excited about writing new songs as I was about playing in front of two hundred thousand people. Because I’m always led by new records I guess. I don’t know, weirdly, you are a nostalgia act when you do the big comeback, and usually no-one gives a damn about your new material. But, that wouldn’t be my mentality"
I'm adding this recent quote from Marr - looks like it would probably have meant a new Smiths album so not just a nostalgia thing:
"I’d thought anyway that if the Smiths were ever going to reform a big part of it would have been to make a new record, because on the one occasion – that I talk about in the book – that it may have nearly happened, I was one hundred per cent as excited about writing new songs as I was about playing in front of two hundred thousand people. Because I’m always led by new records I guess. I don’t know, weirdly, you are a nostalgia act when you do the big comeback, and usually no-one gives a damn about your new material. But, that wouldn’t be my mentality"
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